Asiya Wadud’s Syncope is a pensive enunciation of incredible injustice. This visceral illustration of the refugee crisis reclaims […]
Kristina Marie Darling
What is the price of true individualism? One might, at first, answer “Individualism is priceless.” Then, one might […]
Mirrors, Wings, and Invented Things: Individualism and Otherness in Katie ...
During these months of uncertainty, many of us have sought refuge in books that might signal hope or […]
Traveling in the Undersong: Review of Marianne Boruch’s The Anti-Grief
Perhaps it is a benevolent mechanism of the mind, the amnesia we develop in adulthood that spares us […]
The Education of Angie Rubio: A Review of Living Color: ...
In this mise en abyme of abandoned places, times, and people, readers first enter Americana via “The Bell […]
“This house will outlast:” Paranormal and Verbal Delights in Adam ...
Opening most books, we can flip from the title page to the first poem. Opening this book, though, […]
Carrying Within You What You Choose to Leave Behind: A ...
M. I. Devine’s essays have appeared in American Literature, Adaptation, Measure, and Los Angeles Review of Books. His […]
“Allowing for strangeness in criticism”: A Conversation with M.I. Devine ...
I grew up in a family that did not tell the story. I am listening to […]
One Candle Now, Then Seven More by Brad Aaron Modlin
In the poetry of Brad Aaron Modlin, the most quotidian experiences – growing up, being carried […]
An Introduction to Brad Aaron Modlin by Kristina Marie Darling
In the tradition of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Karen Volkman, and Lisa Jarnot, Jenny Grassl defamiliarizes […]
An Introduction to Jenny Grassl by Kristina Marie Darling
A Process Note Earlier this summer, I was badly in need of a book trailer for my new […]
Swallow 5 by Kristy Bowen
Jenny Grassl was raised in Pennsylvania, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems appeared […]